by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 26, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Jane de Chantal: a life for the poor at the time of the wars of religion “I have always believed that in the person of these poor I wipe the wounds of Jesus Christ,” said St. Jane de Chantal, the founder of the Order of the Visitation.Jane-Françoise...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 25, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
From her childhood, Jane de Chantal is described as “beautiful, cheerful, simple, clairvoyant, determined and deeply applied to her duties as a Christian”. “The perfect lady” first saw her faith in service to the poor and the sick. But after...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2019 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Medical Prof. Paweł Januszewicz “It was my parish church, I lived in Śródmieście for a long time. No one could help , so I got involved – says the professor. In spite of numerous duties as the scientific director of the National Medicines Institute, he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
An obscure mystic of the Sacred Heart, a Visitandine, and a “foundress”, Rosalie Albaret, or Sister Teresa of Jesus, was born in France in January of 1743, the youngest of 10 children, and eventually entered the Visitation Monastery of Avignon. Her dad was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 20, 2019 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
on Sunday June 23, 2019, from 1030AM until 5PM, to celebrate its 400th anniversary! Through the corridors of the building, posters and maps retrace the history of the Order and its nuns. Also on display are engraved plaques of the Sacred Heart, pewter pots made by the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 19, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
As we begin our Novena tomorrow in preparation for the Feast of the Sacred Heart on June 28, 2019, we will feature Visitation Sisters who have especially loved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and promoted this devotion. Of course we are quite familiar with St Margaret Mary...